Overview

LithoSphere is a completely free and open-sourced tile-based 3D globe renderer. First built within the Geographical Information System (GIS) application MMGIS, LithoSphere has been pulled out and refactored into a standalone, mapping focused, JavaScript library. At its core sits the brilliant Three.js library with all its extensible familiarity.

Quick Start

npm install lithosphere

Head over to Getting Started for more, checkout the examples in /public/examples, or start the demo server npm run start:demo and open /public/index.html.

Features

• Fully configurable layer types:
  • Vector
  • Clamped
  • Overlay (not implemented)
  • Tile
  • Tile3d
  • Model
  • Curtain
• Adjustable planetary radii
• Scripts for tiling Digital Elevation Maps (DEM) and custom projections
• Various tile formats:
  • TMS
  • WMTS
  • WMS
• Full Proj4 support to render tile sets of any projection
• A suite of pluginable UI controls:
  • Compass
  • Layers
  • Walk
  • Observe
  • Home
  • Exaggerate
  • Crop
  • Navigation
  • Coordinates
  • Link
• A stub to create parsers for your own tiled data formats
• And more!